Adelaide’s best icy treats to escape this heat

LOOKING for a way to escape today’s heat? We’ve found the city’s best icy treats.

Annie Gobolos, 4, with Gelato at 48 Flavours in Gouger Street. Picture: Matt Turner.

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WEATHER gurus keep telling us it’s going to be a long hot, dry summer so it’s time to start researching the coolest icy treats around. No one will miss out — there are dairy free or gluten-free icypoles, vegan ice-creams or gelati which will transport you to Italy.

1. Brendan Lineage and Courtney Stephen make Sunshine Iceblocks on the Fleurieu Peninsula but these homemade beauties are also available in the metro area. The ice blocks are made with whole fruit, not just the juice, and there are no nasties such as artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or additives. They’re gluten free, with little to no added sugar, and include vegan options. It’s too hard to choose one flavour but the lavender-lemonade or chocolate-avocado iceblocks are awesome.

Sunshine Ice Blocks, Goodies and Grains in the Central Market or 5 O’Clock Somewhere, 101 Gilbert St. sunshineiceblocks.com.au

Brendan Lineage with his wife Courtney Stephen making their all natural ice creams in their production kitchen on their Bull Creek property. Pic: Tricia Watkinson

2. You can’t have too many locally-made popsicle makers. The more the merrier! Another switched on producer doing something similar but different is Locapops run by Kelly and Simon Jones. They make slurpable popsicles low in added organic raw sugar and also made whole fruit or plant-based milks. No preservatives, colourings, stabilisers or thickeners either here, folks. And vegans like them too. Funked up flavour include sticky fig, salted caramel or coconut lemon. They’ll have a summer popsicle pop- up in Rundle Mall, near the mall’s balls, on weekdays from December right through to February. They also offer free home deliveries of Locapops in the CBD during Saturdays in summer.

locapops.com

Locapops.

3, If you’ve been to Italy and want to recreate the Euro gelato experience then this boutique ice cream parlour is for you. The smooth, velvety, rich gelato is all made on site by owner Ugo Capasso. It’s creamy and sweet but it’s not cloying and the flavours are still fresh and clean.

Try a few flavours with the café’s “five scoops for $10 degustation” from November 20 to 26. Look out for the virgin olive oil gelato or classic sour cherry.

Bononia, 145 Melbourne St, North Adelaide.

Bononia cherry icecream at North Adelaide.

4. The Scroll ice cream chain was an instant it in Adelaide. It’s a cool concept with a milk and cream mixture poured on to a very cold (minus 20 degree Celsius) plate surface before chocolate, fruit and other ingredients are heaped on. Then it’s spread out thinly and scrolled with a blade. The ice cream is made without gelatine or egg and they have a dairy-free variety. A vegan fave is coconut cream, lychees, blueberries and blackberries or go hard-core indulgent with the Tim Tam, crushed nuts, brownies, wafers and chocolate.

Scroll Icecream, 35 York St, Adelaide

Perfect Matcha Scroll ice cream.

5. 48 Flavours. Name says it all. There are 48 delicious gelati flavours on offer every day at this iccream parlour run by the O’Donnell family (Michael, Brian and Teresa). Add the 12 dairy free sorbets made with fresh fruit (vegan) and even more vegan flavours made with soy milk gelato, almond milk or coconut milk gelato. It’s hard to go past the pear, gorgonzola, organic fig and roasted walnut gelati. It scooped the pool in this year’s SA Dairy Awards winner and won the people’s choice awards at the Gelato World Tour in Italy.

48 Flavours, 78 Gouger St

Brian O’Donnell with his local-award winning flavour of pear, gorgonzola, fig and walnut at 48 Flavours in Gouger Street. Picture: Matt Turner.